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Hey guys, just got my shipment confirmation from Amazon for my AIOS. Looking forward to playing with it in a couple days. Quick question, perhaps I should have asked before I placed my order...but will the AIOS see my Drobo on the network and stream files from it without too much trouble? I read all 10 pages of this thread, and it does appear that NAS devices are supported...but I didn't see anyone mention a Drobo specifically. Anything I need to worry about? Thanks.

Hey guys, just got my shipment confirmation from Amazon for my AIOS. Looking forward to playing with it in a couple days. Quick question, perhaps I should have asked before I placed my order...but will the AIOS see my Drobo on the network and stream files from it without too much trouble? I read all 10 pages of this thread, and it does appear that NAS devices are supported...but I didn't see anyone mention a Drobo specifically. Anything I need to worry about? Thanks.

That's good to know. I guess more specifically, will the AIOS auto detect the Drobo among my various network devices and pretty much work out of the box, or will I have to work some magic to make them play nice? Thanks again.

mp4 was streamed without a problem, audio was detected correctly, it was sent to my display (which would downmix any way), don't have it connected to an HDMI receiver so I can't comment on that part. (perhaps Audit13 would do us a favour and test it).

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That's good to know. I guess more specifically, will the AIOS auto detect the Drobo among my various network devices and pretty much work out of the box, or will I have to work some magic to make them play nice? Thanks again.

Network discovery (for all three options) works out of the box with no tweaking at all (you basically just browse to the file you want and click to play it).

mp4 was streamed without a problem, audio was detected correctly, it was sent to my display (which would downmix any way), don't have it connected to an HDMI receiver so I can't comment on that part. (perhaps Audit13 would do us a favour and test it).

Network discovery (for all three options) works out of the box with no tweaking at all (you basically just browse to the file you want and click to play it).

Yeah, my concern is whether AAC gets sent to the receiver as AAC or LPCM or downmixed. The WDTV I have now streams my mp4s fine but doesn't do anything with AAC, just downmixes audio formats it senses whatever it's connected to can't do. So it ends up getting downmixed and sent to my receiver. If I have to start over with my collection so be it, lol.

Does anyone know if the Pivos AIOS HD has or will have an app to view MLB.tv? Where can I find a list of all the apps available for the AIOS HD?

It doesn't and probably will never do.

The reason is it has a built in HTML5 browser that has the same streaming capabilities as my chrome browser for HTML5 video (video element, Poster image, H.264, Ogg Theora and WebM) and HTML5 audio (audio element, PCM audio, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis and WebM).

Any costs incurred now for licensing and certification of any extra modules (NF, Amazon VOD, Hulu, MLB.tv) must be "needlessly" passed to end customers. IMHO its money down the drain given that eventually all major service providers will need to move to a fully compatible HTML5 content delivery (instead of the incompatible flash) or given that you can currently stream these services to your AIOS via UPnP services like Playon.tv

I've been enjoying playing with the jukebox (great job aasoror!), and noticed differences when a file is played from the jukebox vs the file browser (FW=AIOS_AASOROR-R18_3.0.1.7).

The Info display is much more primitive (shows time only).

On the one .m2ts blu-ray rip I tried, chapter skipping (PREV/NEXT) and selection (GOTO) fully works when played from the file browser but does nothing when played from the jukebox. Chapters did work for an .mkv dvd rip played from the jukebox.

Also I may have run into a Thumbgen bug incorrectly parsing a filename, or I need to pick better names for folders? Here's the Input/Output naming token test output:

$F should be "00000"
This creates a file named "Across the Universe (2007).mt2s.tgmd", when it should have been named "00000.m2ts.tgmd". This causes TViXiE2Playon!HD to skip that movie (it worked after I renamed that file).

Yup, the differences drives from the fact that one is using the local playback vs. the IMS playback library..

Yes, I saw that on the pivosforum jukebox thread after posting here. Is IMS also used for "File Art" and "Poster View" modes in the file browser? Chapters don't work when playback is started from those modes for a BDMV structure rip. Pressing NEXT says press it again to go to the next file.

The only way I can get chapters to work on a BDMV structure rip is to navigate into the movie folder, highlight the "BDMV" folder and press PLAY.

Yes, I saw that on the pivosforum jukebox thread after posting here. Is IMS also used for "File Art" and "Poster View" modes in the file browser? Chapters don't work when playback is started from those modes for a BDMV structure rip. Pressing NEXT says press it again to go to the next file.

The only way I can get chapters to work on a BDMV structure rip is to navigate into the movie folder, highlight the "BDMV" folder and press PLAY.

--Dan

I don't think its related to the IMS libraries (because you can skip chapters just fine on MKVs and other single file formates in the post/cover mode), I think its related to a messed up implementation on the poster/cover mode, they are trying to figure out a single file to attach to the poster/cover (instead of just trying to play the whole folder and get it over with) while this works fine with MKVs it messes up playback with BDMV (where each chapter is a separate file).

Some of the more offbeat audio tracks don't get sent through the digital outs unless you set it to PCM or something. I have a few videos from the web that will play fine directly from the HDMI to my TV but my stereo doesn't get any digital audio from those particular tracks but the TV gets em converted to PCM fine. Whatever is going on anyways the TV gets it and plays and the receiver doesn't.
You can try playing with how your sound gets sent out to see if a different mode like PCM vs raw works for the bad ones anyways but you'll probably have to set it back to raw when you want 5.1 sound from the normal tracks that work properly for you.

aasoror, I've been really tempted by this player ever since you started this thread, and of course it's price point for what you get. What's held me back is the crappy stock UI and setting up the jukebox for it. I know your semiofficial firmware improves the fugly orange stock UI to a more palatable blue UI, but are there any other user-created skins? Or, can you at least use your own JPG backdrops?

Re: the jukebox, I did ask earlier about this, but wanted to get a little more detailed. I currently use YAMJ for my PopBox v8 and PCH A-300, and I use a jailbroken AppleTV 2 with XBMC, and finally Boxee Box-es. So, what I did is use Ember to manage my movies and TV shows so I end up with the following for each movie for example: moviename.nfo, folder.jpg, moviename.jpg, fanart.jpg, and moviename.fanart.jpg. Basically, I have two identical posters and two fanarts, but with I've got, I'm covered for YAMJ, XBMC and Boxee. All 3 respect that single NFO (basically XBMC-compliant).

So, what I'm wondering is what's the easiest path to jukebox support for AIOS w/o having to do a lot of extra work. Any ideas?

aasoror, I've been really tempted by this player ever since you started this thread, and of course it's price point for what you get. What's held me back is the crappy stock UI and setting up the jukebox for it. I know your semiofficial firmware improves the fugly orange stock UI to a more palatable blue UI, but are there any other user-created skins? Or, can you at least use your own JPG backdrops?

Re: the jukebox, I did ask earlier about this, but wanted to get a little more detailed. I currently use YAMJ for my PopBox v8 and PCH A-300, and I use a jailbroken AppleTV 2 with XBMC, and finally Boxee Box-es. So, what I did is use Ember to manage my movies and TV shows so I end up with the following for each movie for example: moviename.nfo, folder.jpg, moviename.jpg, fanart.jpg, and moviename.fanart.jpg. Basically, I have two identical posters and two fanarts, but with I've got, I'm covered for YAMJ, XBMC and Boxee. All 3 respect that single NFO (basically XBMC-compliant).

So, what I'm wondering is what's the easiest path to jukebox support for AIOS w/o having to do a lot of extra work. Any ideas?

I use Zappiti for my Dune, but this isn't recognized by AIOS. So, I use ThumbGen, and whenever I go to my share files, I press the blue button on the remote and this is what I get:

I know your semiofficial firmware improves the fugly orange stock UI to a more palatable blue UI, but are there any other user-created skins? Or, can you at least use your own JPG backdrops?

Actually every single element in the UI is replaceable. I have moved all GUI related images from read only space to writable space, so you can easily replace whatever GUI element you like (using FTP or telent).

The thing is (apparently) no one was bothered enough with the blue steel interface to create a full skin (you can replace the home screen directly using the settings menus). (thanks AIOS owner SirReal for the bluesteel skin).

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Re: the jukebox, I did ask earlier about this, but wanted to get a little more detailed. I currently use YAMJ for my PopBox v8 and PCH A-300, and I use a jailbroken AppleTV 2 with XBMC, and finally Boxee Box-es. So, what I did is use Ember to manage my movies and TV shows so I end up with the following for each movie for example: moviename.nfo, folder.jpg, moviename.jpg, fanart.jpg, and moviename.fanart.jpg. Basically, I have two identical posters and two fanarts, but with I've got, I'm covered for YAMJ, XBMC and Boxee. All 3 respect that single NFO (basically XBMC-compliant).

ok, let me try to clarify that, if you are satisfied with how your movies are organized (physically) and you don't need a jukebox to organize them (group in year, genre or imdb rating), then you can just use the cover/poster view directly from the file manager (thats what GusGus748s was referring too in his post above). For this mode to work you only need a folder.jpg and poster.jpg inside each movie file (file names are hard coded so there is no way around that).

If you need to use the jukebox app to access your movies then you will need to go through the jukebox building guide (linked in the OP) the sheet names are configurable at jukebox building time so you can reuse the ones you already have where applicable.

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Guys, will be posting my two players up for sale in the classified shortly. Looking to get $125 shipped FOR THE PAIR! Will load em up with whatever firmware you like!

streamerlover, please PM me, I'll take one of yours if you're willing to sell them separately. Hopefully, you're in the U.S. for easy shipping.

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ok, let me try to clarify that, if you are satisfied with how your movies are organized (physically) and you don't need a jukebox to organize them (group in year, genre or imdb rating), then you can just use the cover/poster view directly from the file manager (thats what GusGus748s was referring too in his post above). For this mode to work you only need a folder.jpg and poster.jpg inside each movie file (file names are hard coded so there is no way around that).

If you need to use the jukebox app to access your movies then you will need to go through the jukebox building guide (linked in the OP) the sheet names are configurable at jukebox building time so you can reuse the ones you already have where applicable.

I am actually just going down to two systems to run off of four tvs/projectors.
I found a good HDMI matrix switch and it is working with the Dune, so I am having my son use that one for his system. The oppo stays for 3D playback in my main system and a neotv550 and dune feed the upstairs system as well as the bedroom. I just like trying out new stuff but am pretty content with the dunes. I actually just had a friend sell a couple of my Dunes on ebay for me from the extra systems. I wish I had waited until the price increase as I could have squeezed a few more $$ out of them!